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Yola is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Sub Focus, Massive Attack, Duke Dumont, Daniel Pemberton and Chase & Status. Those roots explain a lot about how Yola arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The War and Treaty, The Highwomen, The Chicks, Dolly Parton and Bobbie Gentry, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Highwomen, Dolly Parton, Dawes, Ringo Starr and Devon Gilfillian, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Yola, reaching back through Sub Focus and forward to The Highwomen. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Yola connections
Yola grew out of Sub Focus, Massive Attack, Duke Dumont and Daniel Pemberton, shares an orbit with The War and Treaty, The Highwomen, The Chicks and Dolly Parton, went on to shape The Highwomen, Dolly Parton, Dawes and Ringo Starr. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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